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Monday, 13 August 2012

Royal Sands Development on the Pleasurama Site Ramsgate Update.

The map above is of the site in 1872 and shows the site when
it was a railway station, if like me you are sick to back teeth of the
Pleasurama saga you can open a large version of this map, and journey around
Ramsgate before the naughty 90s. the map only works properly in internet
explorer, here is the link http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/map1872/id3.htm

It does give us a bit more information about what is a very
important issue for Ramsgate, which the council only seem to wish to discuss in
secret.

My own interest here is to try and ensure that the site has
the flood risk assessment highly recommended by The Environment Agency, this
link takes you to their letter about this issue http://michaelsbookshop.com/ea/id2.htm

I don’t like the idea of building a new development on a
high risk flood zone without a flood risk assessment, apart form the obvious
sense of blundering about in the dark, it is likely to blight the development
to a greater or lesser degree, making financing in difficult economic times
even more difficult.

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